Alzheimers Disease

Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s Disease is a progressive, degenerative disease that attacks the brain and results in impaired memory, thinking and behavior (Internet). It is a degenerative disease affecting nerve cells of the frontal and temporal lobes of the cerebrum of the brain. The disease is the major cause of presenile dementia (i.e., the loss of mental faculties not associated with advanced age) and is thought to be the largest single cause of …

…a patient with the disease have a great risk of developing the disorder themselves. But the incidence of the disease as it occurs in both identical and fraternal sets of twins, though somewhat elevated, is not convincingly high enough to “prove” a hereditary link. It is thought that the disease may be inherited in some families as an autosomal (any chromosome other than those that determine the sex) dominant gene ( that is, the gene located